A lazy-arse guide to the last two months

I have been on a little hiatus from blogging of late.  Mostly because life has been busy, I have been lazy, and far too frightened to dig into the pile of unwashed clothes, to-be-repaired handbags, and miscellaneous (and entirely unexplainable) holiday hat collection to retrieve my laptop. But in coming back, I realised that I left you on quite a cliff hanger.  In something akin to a Home and Away episode where a bomb explodes in a building and you have to wait until the next season to find out who lives and who dies. (Though, spoiler alert – it’s always the weird unlikeable cousin or friend of a friend with the strange name and bad hair!)

 

Anyway, last time I wrote I was about to embark on Tough Mudder... A 20km tough-as-nails obstacles course that I was completely unprepared for (One lovely commenter, even called me a “disgrace to the fitness community”...  It was pretty brilliant!!).  I guess you have figured it out, but yes (for the slower ones amongst us) I did survive.  Possibly a post in itself, instead I will just give you the highlights and lowlights of our time apart - A lazy-arse guide if you will, on the last two months of Leanne and what I have learnt...

 

The Tough Mudder section

·     20 kilometres is really far

·     Mud obstacles are hilarious and fun for the first two hours

·     There is no silence like that of a long stream of people, covered head-to-toe in thick mud, absolutely spent and contemplating their sanity 15 km in

·     There are at least 5 types of mud.  All of them will get up your nose

·     Electrical shocks FUCKING HURT

·     Dignity goes out the door pretty early on.  And later when and complete stranger puts his hands on your bum to push you up over a mud hill, you won’t yell at him, but thank him for his help

·     There is no feeling more brilliant than crossing the finish line, and feeling like the toughest group of girls there is.  Even later, when you are washing off in a creek and accidentally flash an unsuspecting Asian family the feeling will not wear off!

 

The moving house section

·        Moving five streets away, doesn’t not necessarily make moving easier.  It just means, instead of packing thing properly you will just jam random items into cars and wonder for weeks later where your phone charger ended up

·        It is really hard to give someone the finger when helping to move a refrigerator on a rickety bag trolley.

·        Professional movers deserve EVERY dollar they earn.  The Chatty Redhead and me spent at least 15 minutes trying to manoeuvre a dining table sideways through a door when we deemed it impossible.  Her father later took one look at it and told us to tip it on its end to move it

·        Finding places in your new house for your old things can be hard.  This is why if you every find yourself at our house wanting a bath towel you will be directed to a kitchen cupboard.

The trip to New Zealand section

·        New Zealanders bag Australian accents as much as we bag theirs... I’m not sure who is winning

·        When somebody suggests two guys and two girls share one bathroom for four days, just say no

·        Weddings are pretty beautiful, wherever they are

·        Participating in a ‘booty off’ at the reception is not

·        Queenstown is stunning, visit immediately

·        Beer that comes by the litre, cobblestone streets, and high heels can result in grazed knees

·        Be careful when bonding over in-flight drinks with your row-mate.  I’m not sure being told you are “beautiful but angry-looking” is in fact a compliment

·        Going back to work after holidays sucks

 

...And now we are up to date.  Back to normal programming soon.

 

So what have you been doing in the last 2 months?

 

My sis and I with our coveted headbands post Tough Mudder. A few weeks later and I have finally cleared the mud away!

 

 

So what have you been doing in the last 2 months?